UK Petrol Pricing

Hi all

I live in the UK where the government insists in placing a tax levy of
around 614% on a litre of unleaded petrol.

Two years ago, when petrol prices rocketted throught to roof, there were
protesters everywhere, refineries where picketted and you could not but
petrol for love nor money.

Eventually the prices dropped a but and all the ruccuss dies down.

Two years on and i an witnessed pump prices soar by 5pence PER LITre in one
WEEK.

So i ask, why are all the people now accepting the stupidly high fuel
prices, where are all the protestors and picket lines??????

Come on folks, do we really wanna pay these prices for fuel, after all you
car is not a luxury it is an essential part of you life.


Regards

Vertuas

 

What are you doing posting this on this web site

 

Why shouldn't I?

The subject matter is of the concern of UK volvo drivers - all uk drivers in
fact.

And not to mention that i actually own and drive a volvo............

RV

 

Cant pay for the petrol drive something else.

 

Yeah - one of those english "cars" on three wheels..

 

How else can Gordon Brown pay for all the asylum seekers?....

 

Try refineries puprosely shutting down and claiming problems(purely
artificial reasons) and increases of - gosh - we had a period a few
weeks ago where it was (converts to U.K.) roughly a 20 pence increase
in a week.

Sure, we pay less for gas, but that's not the hard part so much as
when it fluxuates wildly in a short time. Suddenly it costs 20%
more to fill up than a week ago. For some people, that completely
messes up their budget(especially the poor sods who bust their hump
doing delivery jobs - talk about a rough career)

I was thinking of doing a delivery job a few months ago to raise some
extra cash and they were expecting a 300 mile a day route. That's
like 15 gallons of gas a day(since most of it was short trips with
lots of starts and stops).

Even at $1.75 a gallon, that's $26.25 a day in gas. When it jumped
to $2.25 a gallon, $33.75 a day. Suddenly, it got to be a big problem
as the gas reimbursement was a puny 10 cents a mile. That dropped my
wages by almost 50 cents an hour - I was looking at a loss of income
just from the gas - and that didn't cover maintainence on the car,
or oil changes every other week. The final calculation was that I
would clear $4 an hour after factoring all of this in. Went from
a $3.75 net gain per day(acceptable - covers oil changes every other week)
to a net $3.75 loss in a week's time. The delivery company didn't
adjust their reimbursement, of course. They never do. Heh.

Needless to say, I got a different second job.

I can't IMAGINE what it is like in the U.K. Even with a micro-car
like the Smart, at 45mpg(avg city), it's still what - $5 a
gallon(equivalent)now? I don't think they reimburse the delivery
people 6-7 pence a mile. Maybe they do. It's probably closer
to 5.

Of course, we don't get 50+ mpg cars here in the U.S., so...
(Toyota Pruis is probably the only one, but at $20K, it's
a tough purchase for a delivery person)

 

.....I really love driving a diesel car as my primary mode of
transportation.... if the price swumg like gasoline does you would have
truckers and delivery truck drivers going rampant.... Diesel has been a nice
~61 cents a litre for a while now.

Meanwhile my father is constantly complaining because he always seems to
fill up our empty Volvo with expensive premium, then the next day the price
dove 8 cents..... so he will go to fill up the old VW, then find out the
price jumped mid day by 6 cents.....

No financial problems paying for gas for anyone in my family, but it's
annoying.

 

Some observations from the land of ludicrously low fuel prices - -

Just back from a month's vacations in the UK, I must say that it was a
pain to fill up our Ford Focus at US$5.13 per gallon. I believe that it
was generally about 10p more for the premium that goes in our Volvo's
here at home.

It's all relative, I think. Fuel prices in the US go up and down so
fast and often that you never know what to think, much less have time to
make much complaint. Just before we left on vacation, gas was at $1.769
here in Reno (we tend to be high). Six weeks later, it had risen to
$2.069! I bought gas today at $1.869 - a $0.20 drop in two weeks for no
apparent reason. Of course, one wants to fill up prior to weekends and
holidays, as prices go up by several cents per gallon when more folks
are going to be buying. With taxes fixed on a /gallon basis, the rest
is all marketing games. Of course, 95% of the motoring population have
no idea how cheap our gas is - the only "first world" country where
gasoline is consistently cheaper than bottled water, I've often heard!

Along about the time that world supplies of fossil fuels are gone, some
US politicians may suddenly develop the balls to increase the tax burden
on our fuels here. Most of us consider it our God-given right to
consume irreplaceable resources as fast as we can. How sad!

bob noble
Reno, NV, USA

 

so you're advocating higher taxes.
why?
don't you think you are better at spending YOUR money the way you see
fit rather than shipping that money off to the government so they can
spend YOUR money the way they see fit?

 

Fuel prices in the uk go up everytime the price of crued goes up.

When creud goes up, the pump price reflects the increase almost instantly.

When crued falls, what happens to the pump price???

Well it either stays the same or takes months to fall to a price which was
higher than before crued went up.

They like to increase the price, but they never take it off.

The uk should have some kind of price guidlines.

I live in an area where petrol is highly priced, 15 miles down the road,
petrol is up to 5p per litre cheaper??

Again guild lines would stop this type of rip off.

 

From a point at sea, to the circles of your mind, this is JohnDoe:

You're not thinking this through very well.

How else are you going to be able to afford to prosecute a decent,
satisfying war against those tiresome countries that have got all the
oil? Taxes are an important part of bombing the shit out of other
people. This in turn keeps fuel prices cheap.


--

Stewart Hargrave

A lot faster than public transport


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you're not especially bright are you? the US is financing it's wars
with debt, the fact is that your euro brethren, (it's quite obvious
that you don't have 2 quid to rub together), are the ones buying that
debt so in effect the europeans and asians are financing the war.
when you have a clue you can come back and play.